Soberanía 76: ¡Viva Mexico!
On this special Independence Day episode of Soberanía, we dive into President Claudia Sheinbaum’s historic first Grito, Mexico’s growing sense of optimism, and the stark contrast with a United States gripped by fear, censorship, and violence. We also unpack reports of CIA activity in Mexico, Trump’s drone strikes near Venezuela, and what Washington’s doctrine of extrajudicial killings could mean for Mexico’s sovereignty. Finally, in Losers and Haters, those in the press – and think tanks – who would whitewash US aggression in the region.
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Sheinbaum Supervises Construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro Passenger Train; “It’s Progressing According to Schedule”
Some 18,500 people are working on the 230-kilometer double-track line, which will link Buenavista to downtown Querétaro in about two hours at up to 180 km/h.
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How the McPRIAN, Salinas Pliego and Others Profited from Carlos Manzo.
His brother accuses the widow’s movement of politicizing the case, as prosecutors tie the killing to CJNG revenge and report 33 arrests one year on.
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“With You I Learned to Do Politics”: Lula Remembers Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
A stranger in a Houston audience rescued Lula’s 1979 talk by offering to translate. It was Cárdenas, who decades later visited him in prison in Curitiba.
